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“All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.”
― George Whitman

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
― Albert Einstein

“You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.”
― Julia Child

“I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”
― John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
― Albert Einstein

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

“We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
― J.M. Barrie

“But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked.

Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.”
― John Flanagan, Erak's Ransom

“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Change is the end result of all true learning.”
― Leo Buscaglia

“Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”
― Aristotle

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”
― Doris Lessing

“The knowledge of all things is possible”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
― Abigail Adams

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
― B.B. King

“It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault."
"You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”
― Sarah Caldwell

“When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“He who laughs most, learns best”
― John Cleese

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson